Large and complex areas filled with process equipment can face risks from toxic or combustible gas leaks, flames and explosions. Fixed flame and gas detection systems are specifically developed and installed to protect these areas against flames and gas leaks.
It is unfortunate that, no hard and fast rules exist for installing gas detectors since there are a number of variables that have to be considered.
When an emergency event takes place at an oil/gas/petrochemical unit that involves fire or leaking gas, the consequences of failing to react appropriately can be devastating.
For years, officials have used infrared spectroscopy to detect trace amounts of performance-enhancing drugs in a blood sample or tiny bits of explosive bomb materials traveling through the air.
By Brett Smith
4 Aug 2017
Traditionally used technologies in fixed installations to trace hydrocarbon gas leaks, like IR Open Path Sensors and Catalytic/IR Point Sensors invariably have one restriction: in order to detect a leak, the gas itself must come out from a place very near to the detector or within a specified area.